i also read your review on Mageia as well its pretty same what i experiance but on live cd mode i wonder how did i miss it.

i tried is few weeks ago evething look ok on vmware but when i run it form live cd ..............gooosh all crap its stuck and unable to boot

i wish i read your review before experimenting on it save lot time and a burned cd ...............as my net slow and takes 4 hours to download a distro only.

Anyways Mandriva always fascinate me its the only distro which could be given one of perfect desktops because of its control center and looks to kill alone ............ but pity if its not stable and buggy i wait a little more thanks again for beautiful review.

The reason that I think of an alternative solution for you is that i didn't download Mandriva yet and thought of how bandwidth limits could be handled. Perhaps distro providers should offer DVD iso's in 500 MB chunks.